Savannah Guthrie Knows Exactly When It's OK To Ask Someone If They're Pregnant
Savannah Guthriehas some advice involvingpregnancythat everyone should listen to.
On Tuesday, the “Today” news anchor responded to nosey comments about whether she was expecting. Themom of two tweetedthat it was “just the dress” and followed up with a post on Instagram that explains when exactly it’s OK to ask someone if they’re pregnant.
A post shared by Savannah Guthrie (@savannahguthrie)on May 22, 2018 at 6:07am PDT
A reporter in Indianapolis had tweeted the says-it-all image to Guthrie in support. The news host captioned her own post, “Excuse me while I spend the rest of the day on the elliptical.”
In June 2017, Guthrie and fellow “Today” anchor Hoda Kotb chatted aboutwhat it’s like receiving unsolicited commentsabout parenting from complete strangers. They both said they had experiencedmom-shamingafter posting photos of their children on social media.
Kotb said that after she put up a beach photo ofher daughter, Haley Joy, who is now 15 months old, commenters flooded the post to ask whether the baby was protected from the sun. Guthrie experienced something similar when she posted a photo of her daughter, Vale, outside.
“Her skin has never seen the light of day and [commenters] were like, ‘Where’s the sunscreen? Why doesn’t she have a hat?’” she said.
On Wednesday’s edition of “Today,” Guthrie chatted about her Instagram post, which currently has more than 28,000 likes. She joked that she knows her viewers mean well.
“We have the best viewers,” she said. “They’re so nice and they were so cute. They were like, ‘Congratulations!’ And then I was like, ‘Congratulations on my second gym membership that I need to obviously go to.’”
The anchor noted that she received several comments from women who said strangers had touched their pregnant bellies without asking.
So for future reference, keep your comments about other people’s bodies to yourself ― and keep your hands off their bodies.
This article originally appeared on HuffPost.